The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19
O'Blen Threatened With Mob vio-
lence at Ottawa.
His Friends Promise to Protect Him
With Pistols.
Indianapolis Cops and Car Drivers
Have Row.
BlIne Said to be Planning for q Wig.
orOus Campaign.


men, Of whom there are several thous-
and, declare that if he comes to the
home Of the governor general they will
mob him, while the friends of home
rule equally strong, declare they will
protect him II need be at the point Of
the pistol. He is coming, that is sure,
and in the present excited state of the
public pulse 1t looks as though a row
was imminent. He will draw the largest
crowd here of any city in Canada, and
IL blood is not shed it will be because
the good sense of the Orangemen will
prevent their making any attack on
him. The feeling of the Canadian
people generally Is that the move is a
most injudicious one; and that while
Mr.. O'Brien will make no converts he
will awaken feeling of hostility which
should have lain dormant and would
in time have died a natural death.
PUT THEIR FOOT IN IT.
MONTREAL, May I6.-The Orange
men, at least that section of the order
which threatened war on the editor of
the United Ireland, have put their foot
in it. This is the verdict of their own
friends, while the Catholics, who have
nothing to do with the matter, look on
and laugh. The Orange meeting at
Toronto on Saturday furnishes oppOr-
tunity for more angry comment on their
conduct by their own supporters than
any yet made by their bftterest oppo-
nents.
MORE EARNEST THAN WISE.
The Montreal Gazette, Conservative
Government organ, has a leading edi-
torial this morning on the Toronto
meeting, in which it says: 1T must be
said that some of the speakers at the
anti-O 'Brien meeting at Toronto were
more earnest than wise. They fell into
ways they themselves, in common with
tremendous majority of the people
in this country condemn in the agita-
tor, whose presence on the mission he
has taken up can advance resent.
Some things were said in the presence
of 10000 or II 900 persons gathered in
Queens Park on Saturday that will
rankle in the minds of other citizens,
who, while not endorsing the policy
that makes the Dominion the battle
field for Irish quarrels, sympathize
with other phases OF the movement
with which O'Brien is connected, and
will feel that they have been needlessly
hurt by words that would not have
been called forth had wiser counsels
prevailed and the cause of the present
turmoil stayed at home. Thus there is
danger of collision. We sincerely hope
that wherever Mr.. O'Brien determines
those who cannot justify his mission
will keep away"
LANDsDowNE's HAND.
Lord Landsdowne's hand is plainly
visible in an editorial in the Montreal
Herald, whose politics are Liberal, but
which opposed at tho beginning the
O'Brien invasion almost as vigorously
as the Gazette itself. 1t maintains
that Lord Lansdowne is held to an
swer the same as any other charges of
turning off poor tenants; that it is a
public question, and his accusers have "A
right to the platform, and must be met
not by violence but by argument.
AGAINST THE oRANGEMEN.
These two editorials have caused
almost the entire province to wheel into
line, if not exactly in favor of O'Brien,
at least against the Orangemen and
their threats. To-day every body here
is talking what is likely to occur at
Toronto when o 'Brien gets there.
o'BRIEN HAPPY.
Speaking of the Orange meeting
there Mr.. O'Brien, full of gladness,
have happened. Why's said he, as
with Lord Lansdowne now, it is a
case of save me from my friends. ,
Haven't the Orangemen got him and
his cause into the very same stew that
the bigoted little Tory, Chase Lewis,
got the Government into the other day,
in relation to the charges of the Lon
don Times. which he insisted should be
summoned by the House of Commons,
and who, to his establishment and to the
CONSERVATION of the Government,
united in vetoing the motion. From
the proposed action supported by the
whole force of the Irish party 1 pre-
dict that Prof. Goodwin Smith would
at last find his level, as i see he was
one of the most blatant speakers of the
Orange meeting"
TORONTO, May I'M. D 'Brien was
greeted by an immense throng when he
arrived here this morning. A long ad-
dress of welcome was read to him. Mr..
O'ISrien replied as follows, amid ire
mendous cheering: MIR. Mulligan
and Gentlemen: I assure that not for
the first time, nor the fiftieth time,
since i came to Canada my heart has
been OVERLOOKING with gratitude for the
wonderful way in which our fellow
countrymen here in Canada steered
Killbride and myself in difficulty and
trial. We never will forget you for the
way in which you faced the dangers
you had to face in siding with
powerful man who has left
hundreds of poor men, women and
children homeless Tar away in Ireland,
in Luggacurran loud cheers, boots and
groans.l / cannot express my sense of
the way in which our excited fellow
cOuntrymen nave behaved on this mis-
sion. [Cheers and groans.l If the
London Times had its way it would be
literally treason to love us, and death
to defend us. Thank God the London
Times is aot going to have its way
here [groans for the Timesl in Toronto
nor anywhere else very much
longer lgreat cheering and some
boots and hissesl. When 1 speak
of the heroism our people have
in NJ ~
that do not refer to mere threats
personal violence or attacks, because ]
take 1t for granted that on this free sol
OF Canada at this time and day no citi
zen Of Canada is going to attempt to in
timidate us by wild threats or by flour
ishing revolvers or by brandishing any
thing of that kind in our faces. (Cheer,
and hoots.) Our countrymen in Cana
da have had much more serious anC
substantial social and political risk
than that to face in taking our par
and arraying themselves with u
against the powerful influences whicl
are against us in Canada to-day"
There has been no need for them 8
far. The ROSin House Is only q fey
blocks away, and as the party drov
there the crowd increased and the en-
thuSiasm grew greater. The spaciOu
rotunda of the hotel was one mass @
humanity. To reach his room was i'm
possible, so Mr.. O'Brien was hoiste
on the shoulders of strong men an
carried to the broad staircase, an
there, amid intense excitement, wa
presented with the address by D. i
Cahill, Secretary Of the local branch {
the National League. During Nj
O'Brien's reply there were frequent a
tempts at interruption by several {
the crowd hooting, but as before Il
overwhelming majority were O,Briel
ties, and their cheers sounded like
chorus.
ORANGE RowDYIsM.
Never in the worst days Of Bella